The essence of the Way is detachment.
BODHIDHARMATrying to find a buddha or enlightenment is like trying to grab space.
More Bodhidharma Quotes
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.
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This one life has no form and is empty by nature. If you become attached by any form, you should reject it. If you see an ego, a soul, a birth, or a death, reject them all.
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To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
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To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
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People who don’t see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.
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Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it’s worship. Such form is its real form.
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Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.
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And as long as you’re subject to birth and death, you’ll never attain enlightenment.
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Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.
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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
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I do not need any writing, since I transmit teaching beyond words and ideas.
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As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you’ll never see that your own mind is the Buddha
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The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.
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But this mind isn’t somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can’t move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It’s the mind that moves.
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